• Treatment centers have specifical y between poor COVID-19 outcomes and either HIV status among designated isolation and treatment units staffed by clinicians hospitalized patients ( 3 - 5 ) or HIV-associated factors such as CD4 and nurses trained in COVID-19 clinical management. (cdc.gov)
  • The patients who received medical care for COVID-19 in these cen- effect of HIV infection on COVID-19 outcomes remains an ters during March-December 2020 and who provided verbal urgent question in sub-Saharan Africa, where many countries are consent to receive treatment were enrolled in the COVID-19 experiencing dual HIV and COVID-19 epidemics, and capacity clinical outcomes study. (cdc.gov)
  • It now covers all specialities and covers all outcomes as well as deaths. (wikipedia.org)
  • This finding could be very useful in the effort to reduce inappropriate prescribing of opioids without severely restricting availability of legally prescribed opioids for patients who should be getting them," said NIA Director Richard J. Hodes, M.D. "It shows that physicians respond to information about adverse outcomes. (imperialvalleynews.com)
  • Our results show the association between risk of death and bed occupancy is linear and as occupancy increases the worse patients' outcomes become. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • We have been using one-size-fits-all adjuvant chemotherapy for every patient with lung cancer despite a decade of advances in targeted treatments for select groups of patients that result in dramatically better outcomes," noted Dr. Nathan Pennell , an oncologist and professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine in Ohio. (upi.com)
  • To try and identify the most important prognostic markers in mCRPC, the investigators undertook a complete and comprehensive analysis of genetic, molecular, cellular, and clinical outcomes data from 444 tumor samples, taken from 429 patients. (genengnews.com)
  • Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service ," NBER Working Papers 16164, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (repec.org)
  • Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition, and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service ," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy , American Economic Association, vol. 5(4), pages 134-166, November. (repec.org)
  • Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service ," CEPR Discussion Papers 8203, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. (repec.org)
  • The pandemic has changed the world as we know it, causing a dramatic drop in adult cardiac surgery volume and worsening patient outcomes," added Nguyen. (businessworld.in)
  • The abrupt cessation of surgery in mid-March 2020 has proven to have had far-reaching implications, as the negative effects of cancelled and postponed procedures on patient health outcomes now are being realised. (businessworld.in)
  • The researchers plan to examine trends and outcomes of COVID patients vs. non-COVID patients, as well as delve more into the COVID effect on specific adult cardiac procedures such as aortic dissections. (businessworld.in)
  • Persons receiving maintenance dialysis are at increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection and its severe outcomes, including death. (cdc.gov)
  • The study also found that patients taking statins showed a comparably lower risk of dying or suffering other negative outcomes whether or not they were taking blood pressure-lowering drugs called angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs). (uclahealth.org)
  • Thus, a closer look was needed to determine how clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19 could be affected by the use of statins, either alone or in combination therapy. (uclahealth.org)
  • Gov. Phil Scott and Health Commissioner Mark Levine announced the first coronavirus-related deaths in the state at a hastily arranged press conference Thursday night. (wbur.org)
  • With total coronavirus cases in the UK now exceeding 3million and 3,500 patients on ventilators, hospitals across the country are stretched to their limits. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Officials in Linn County provided an update on Monday to the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus, saying that deaths from the illness caused by the virus have been reported at two area care facilities, both in the Cedar Rapids metro area. (kcrg.com)
  • Overall, 38 patients have been admitted to Mercy since the spread of the coronavirus began locally. (kcrg.com)
  • Three more patients have died after being diagnosed with coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in Scotland to 10, the Scottish Government has confirmed. (stv.tv)
  • Despite the devastating death toll, Minnesota nursing homes are still being allowed by state regulators to admit coronavirus patients who have been discharged from hospitals. (startribune.com)
  • Currently, even poorly rated nursing homes with large and deadly clusters of coronavirus cases have been allowed to admit COVID-19 patients from hospitals. (startribune.com)
  • One such facility, North Ridge Health and Rehab in New Hope, has accepted 42 patients from hospitals and other long-term care facilities since mid-April even as the coronavirus has raged through its 320-bed nursing home, killing 48 of its patients and infecting scores more. (startribune.com)
  • Long-term care facilities can provide treatment for coronavirus patients who still need care, but have stabilized enough that they no longer require hospitalization, officials said. (startribune.com)
  • So far, 11 facilities statewide have been designated as "COVID support sites," with separate units or wings to handle coronavirus patients. (startribune.com)
  • But the fear that moving coronavirus patients to nursing homes might trigger more infections has been compounded by the alarming death toll in such facilities. (startribune.com)
  • Washington [US], February 1 (ANI): A new study has found that the effects of the ongoing coronavirus health crisis have resulted in a substantial decline in overall heart surgery volume and an unexplained increase in deaths after coronary artery bypass grafting. (businessworld.in)
  • The first patients have arrived at a 1,000-bed hospital built in eight days as part of China's efforts to fight the coronavirus, according to state media. (sky.com)
  • New Jersey has reported more deaths from the coronavirus linked to long-term care facilities than any other state. (propublica.org)
  • In 2012, the Affordable Care Act required Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to impose financial penalties on hospitals with higher-than-expected 30-day readmission rates for patients hospitalized with either heart failure, heart attacks, or pneumonia. (aboutlawsuits.com)
  • During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services instituted emergency requirements through the End-stage Renal Disease Network, mandating that COVID-19 cases, deaths, and vaccination status of dialysis facility patients and staff members be reported to NHSN. (cdc.gov)
  • Police said Shannon Vincel, of Springfield, Missouri, was hit over the head with a blunt object around 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 15 as she and another patient waited for a hospital shuttle outside the Cancer Treatment Centers of America facility in Zion, Illinois. (cbs58.com)
  • Cancer Treatment Centers of America is offering a $25,000 reward for information in her death. (cbs58.com)
  • In a statement released to CBS affiliate KOLR, a spokeswoman for Cancer Treatment Centers of America called the death "tragic" and said they are cooperating with the Zion Police Department and Lake County Sheriff's Department. (cbs58.com)
  • Patients should be at centers where intensive cardiac monitoring and appropriate invasive and noninvasive studies can be performed. (medscape.com)
  • Early in the pandemic, the Minnesota Department of Health turned to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities to relieve the burden on hospitals that were at risk of being overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients. (startribune.com)
  • Minnesota hospitals have since discharged dozens of infected patients to nursing homes, including facilities that have undergone large and deadly outbreaks of the disease, state records show. (startribune.com)
  • They are calling for more state scrutiny over transfers, including stricter standards over which nursing homes should be allowed to accept COVID-19 patients from hospitals. (startribune.com)
  • However, other nursing homes have been allowed to admit COVID-19 patients under private arrangements with hospitals. (startribune.com)
  • He was surprised when a staff member at the facility informed him that COVID-19 patients were being admitted to the facility from area hospitals. (startribune.com)
  • METHOD: This retrospective cohort study included adult patients with critical COVID-19 admitted to an intensive care unit at three Swedish hospitals between March 2020 and May 2021 with at least one valid peak and/or trough anti-Factor Xa value. (lu.se)
  • University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust has been ordered to pay a total of £216,664.88 after pleading guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment to a patient. (itv.com)
  • Patients discharged from hospitals located in markets where competition was more feasible were less likely to die, had shorter length of stay and were treated at the same cost. (repec.org)
  • When comparing mortality rates among the populations discharged from hospitals for one of the conditions pre-HRRP and post-HRRP announcement, researchers discovered roughly 10,000 more deaths from pneumonia and heart failure patients. (aboutlawsuits.com)
  • Researchers warned that hospitals may be denying patients life-saving care out of fear of being penalized. (aboutlawsuits.com)
  • Ninety-seven patients in total recovered and were discharged from hospitals. (pattayamail.com)
  • CareOne struck a deal to take COVID-19 patients from hospitals and made "COVID-capable" part of its branding. (propublica.org)
  • Adverse events and potentially preventable deaths in Dutch hospitals: results of a retrospective patient record review study. (nivel.nl)
  • OBJECTIVE: This study determined the incidence, type, nature, preventability and impact of adverse events (AEs) among hospitalised patients and potentially preventable deaths in Dutch hospitals. (nivel.nl)
  • METHODS: Using a three-stage retrospective record review process, trained nurses and doctors reviewed 7926 admissions: 3983 admissions of deceased hospital patients and 3943 admissions of discharged patients in 2004, in a random sample of 21 hospitals in the Netherlands (4 university, 6 tertiary teaching and 11 general hospitals). (nivel.nl)
  • A large sample of deceased patients was included to determine the occurrence of potentially preventable deaths in hospitals more precisely. (nivel.nl)
  • Extrapolating to a national level, between 1482 and 2032 potentially preventable deaths occurred in Dutch hospitals in 2004. (nivel.nl)
  • The researchers looked back at the records of 13,981 COVID-19 patients admitted to 21 hospitals in the Hubei Province, China. (uclahealth.org)
  • During June 30, 2021-September 27, 2022, rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related death were higher among maintenance dialysis patients compared with rates in the U.S. population. (cdc.gov)
  • Since November 2020, CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) has collected weekly data monitoring incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections (defined as a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result) and COVID-19-related deaths (defined as the death of a patient who had not fully recovered from a SARS-CoV-2 infection) among maintenance dialysis patients. (cdc.gov)
  • This analysis used NHSN dialysis facility COVID-19 data reported during June 30, 2021-September 27, 2022, to describe rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related death among maintenance dialysis patients. (cdc.gov)
  • However, rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related death among dialysis patients, and the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on these rates, are not well described. (cdc.gov)
  • CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) collects weekly facility-level data monitoring incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and death among maintenance dialysis patients. (cdc.gov)
  • Facility-level data on SARS-CoV-2 infections and deaths were stratified into waves (periods between weeks with the lowest infection rates among NHSN dialysis patients). (cdc.gov)
  • Pooled mean SARS-CoV-2 infection and death rates (events per 10,000 patient-weeks) among dialysis patients were calculated as the sum of weekly cases divided by the weekly patient census during each wave. (cdc.gov)
  • BACKGROUND: Patients with critical COVID-19 have a high risk of thromboembolism, but intensified thromboprophylaxis has not been proven beneficial. (lu.se)
  • We aimed to study the association between anti-Factor Xa values and death, thromboembolism, and bleeding in patients with critical COVID-19. (lu.se)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Measuring anti-Factor Xa activity may be relevant for administrating low-molecular-weight heparin to patients with critical COVID-19. (lu.se)
  • Our study aimed to investigate the early indicators of death in patients suffering from severe and critical COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • A retrospective cohort study was conducted on patients with severe and critical COVID-19, admitted to the Seventh Hospital of Wuhan. (bvsalud.org)
  • p=0.025) were risk factors associated with death in patients with severe and critical COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • Underlying heart disease , lymphocyte count , glomerular filtration rate , lactate , oxygenation index, SOFA score, and MuLBSTA score were associated with the risk of death in severe and critical COVID-19 patients . (bvsalud.org)
  • Using data from patients survival time data were collected during hospitalization until with probable or confirmed COVID-19 admitted to specialized patients died or were discharged. (cdc.gov)
  • during hospitalization or with COVID-19-associated death. (cdc.gov)
  • During a median participation time of 18.4 months (n = 185) for the escitalopram group and 18.7 months (n = 187) for the placebo group, the primary outcome of death or hospitalization occurred in 116 (63 percent) patients and 119 (64 percent) patients, respectively. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A phase 3 trial of Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics' oral antiviral treatment molnupiravir showed it reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by around 50% in Covid patients. (cnbc.com)
  • and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics said Friday they've developed a drug that reduces the risk of hospitalization or death by around 50% for patients with mild or moderate cases of Covid. (cnbc.com)
  • Of those patients, 1,219 were given statins for an average of 25 days during hospitalization. (uclahealth.org)
  • Patient demographic, clinical, and to treat severe COVID-19 is limited. (cdc.gov)
  • among patients who between HIV infection and severe COVID-19 and COVID-19- had received COVID-19 care before the start of data collec- associated death. (cdc.gov)
  • HIV status alone was not patients by telephone 28 days after admission to determine significantly associated with severe COVID-19 at admission or their health status. (cdc.gov)
  • Patients with severe aged 15 years of 12.1% ( 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Myocytolysis was also noted in 11 patients with severe coronary atherosclerosis. (nih.gov)
  • She said the patient had been taking the drug for four and a half years, and for three and a half years had experienced severe prolonged lymphopenia, a lowering of the white blood cell count. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Jeff Johnson of Maple Grove said his 71-year-old father has been a patient at North Ridge since he suffered severe injuries in a car crash in March. (startribune.com)
  • As of Wednesday, 322 patients infected with the COVID-19 virus are hospitalized across Estonia, 148 of whom are hospitalized due to severe COVID infections. (err.ee)
  • Using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis , and calculating odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI), independent risk factors for death in severe and critically ill COVID-19 patients were identified. (bvsalud.org)
  • Similar to cerebral hypoxia, severe or prolonged brain ischemia will result in unconsciousness, brain damage or death, mediated by the ischemic cascade. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opioid overdose deaths have increased in Sweden and other developed countries in recent decades, despite increased treatment efforts and harm-reduction interventions. (lu.se)
  • In such cases, physicians prescribe medications in life-ending amounts to terminally ill patients. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • It's for terminally ill patients who ask him to bring it to hasten their death. (kunr.org)
  • It identified factors affecting the quality of care of patients aged 18 years or older with a significant mental disorder who are admitted to a general hospital. (wikipedia.org)
  • In it, researchers studied 567 hospital patients whose hearts stopped during their stay between May 2017 and March 2020. (medicinenet.com)
  • The patients all received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) immediately, but only 10% were discharged from the hospital. (medicinenet.com)
  • Mr D's death came almost two years after he was first admitted as an emergency to an acute general hospital in January 2017 following a seizure due to water intoxication, aged 16. (yahoo.com)
  • Suzanne McGuinness, executive director for social work at the Mental Welfare Commission, said: "This was a tragic death of a young man while he was being cared for in hospital. (yahoo.com)
  • Twenty years after a series of deaths at a rural Missouri hospital, a former worker has been charged with murder. (abc15.com)
  • AP) - A former Missouri respiratory therapist who pleaded guilty in the deaths of two hospital patients has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. (fox2now.com)
  • Some staff at the hospital believed Hall was responsible because of her proximity to the stricken patients, her access to deadly pharmaceuticals, and because she notified staff of every patient's cardiac emergency, according to court documents. (fox2now.com)
  • In a study appearing in the June 28 issue of JAMA , Christiane E. Angermann, M.D., of University Hospital Wurzburg, Germany, and colleagues examined whether 24 months of treatment with the antidepressant escitalopram would improve mortality, illness, and mood in patients with chronic heart failure and depression. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Pressed about whether Vermont has enough hospital beds, ventilators and other equipment to deal with a possible surge in patients in the coming weeks, Levine said, "If there's a scenario we're planning for, it's a worst-case scenario. (wbur.org)
  • In the worst case scenario (when mechanical ventilator ICU occupancy goes from zero to 100 per cent) a patient's risk of death nearly doubles, which suggests that every per cent counts and hospital strain must be reduced. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • At least one local hospital is seeing a steady, but manageable, flow of sick patients into its facility, according to an official there. (kcrg.com)
  • Around a third of those patients have been discharged, with the average hospital stay being around six days. (kcrg.com)
  • State health officials and long-term care industry representatives have defended the practice of discharging some COVID-19 patients to nursing homes, saying it is part of a broader strategy to conserve critical hospital beds during the pandemic. (startribune.com)
  • For COVID-19-positive patients whose care requirements are below that level, the goal is to get them out of the hospital and into an appropriate setting for their next stage of care - one that can provide the services they do need while minimizing the risk of transmission. (startribune.com)
  • WIS reports that 40-year-old Kevin Robinson, a Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital worker, died on May 31 after a patient suffering from mental and emotional issues attacked him. (nbc12.com)
  • The patient - Peter Mullis - was admitted to Queens Hospital Burton emergency department. (itv.com)
  • Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and timeliness of care. (repec.org)
  • Leading Chinese epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan, who played a major role in overcoming China's 2002-03 outbreak of SARS, told state broadcaster CCTV the additional beds and space were crucial to stopping the spread of new infections because sick patients could now stay in hospital rather than being sent home. (sky.com)
  • Although hospital readmission programs are designed to reduce the risk of patients returning to the hospital shortly after they are discharged, new research suggests that the reduction programs may actually be increasing the number of deaths among individuals suffering from certain conditions. (aboutlawsuits.com)
  • In a study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) , Harvard researchers found that patients discharged for heart failure and pneumonia complications had a significantly higher post-discharge mortality rate after a hospital readmission reduction program was implemented. (aboutlawsuits.com)
  • DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) - Video from a state mental hospital shows a Black Virginia man who was handcuffed and shackled being pinned to the ground by seven deputies who are now facing second-degree murder charges in his death, according to relatives of the man and their attorneys who viewed the footage Thursday. (walb.com)
  • An intensive-care doctor ordered "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an Ohio hospital system announced after being sued by a family alleging an improper dose of fentanyl actively hastened the death of one of those patients. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • Among deceased hospital patients, 10.7% (95% CI 9.8% to 11.7%) had experienced an AE. (nivel.nl)
  • Preventable AEs that contributed to death occurred in 4.1% (95% CI 3.5% to 4.8%) of all hospital deaths. (nivel.nl)
  • CBSNews) ST. LOUIS -- A Missouri woman battling breast cancer was beaten to death last week outside the Illinois hospital residence where she was being treated. (cbs58.com)
  • In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakenings and the TV series House, Dr. Eric Manheimer's Twelve Patients is a memoir from the medical director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of 12 very different patients - from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners from Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons - to illustrate larger societal issues. (learnoutloud.com)
  • Manheimer is not only the medical director of the country's oldest public hospital, but he is also a patient. (learnoutloud.com)
  • We also concluded that communication should have been made clearer for both the patient and his family around arrangements to return to hospital if he continued to feel unwell. (expressandstar.com)
  • This study aimed to get to know the interfaces regarding coping with patients' death and dying from health professionals' perspective, in the hospital context. (bvsalud.org)
  • The comfort provided to the family and physician by an existing physician-patient relationship may be missing in the ED because the hospital, physician, and staff most often are unfamiliar and may not have the family's full confidence. (medscape.com)
  • Prediction of death and neurologic outcome in the emergency department in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors. (medscape.com)
  • This was a cross sectional study of adult patients with HIV/AIDS attending outpatient clinic at the S.S. Wali Virology Centre of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital who gave informed consent. (who.int)
  • There was a high mortality rate - over a third of patients treated with NIV. (wikipedia.org)
  • Patients diagnosed with heart attacks were also found to have an increased mortality rate, however, not as significant as the other conditions. (aboutlawsuits.com)
  • Hospitalized patients taking statins had a 5.2% mortality rate, compared to a 9.4% mortality rate in patients not taking statins from two groups of COVID-19 patients with matching clinic characteristics except statin usage. (uclahealth.org)
  • CONCLUSIONS: The incidence of AEs, preventable AEs and potentially preventable deaths in the Netherlands is substantial and needs to be reduced. (nivel.nl)
  • Medical errors could result in numerous preventable injuries and deaths. (who.int)
  • More than half of these occur in surgical care, and more than half are preventable.2 Unsafe injections, blood and medicines are other important sources of patient harm worldwide. (who.int)
  • The agency found that 27%, or about 268 patients, were discharged to long-term care facilities since the pandemic began. (startribune.com)
  • That is a staggering 81% of the deaths from the pandemic statewide. (startribune.com)
  • The researchers examined data from 717,103 adult cardiac surgery patients and more than 20 million COVID-19 patients in an effort to determine how the pandemic affected adult cardiac surgery on national and regional levels. (businessworld.in)
  • Washington, DC - Clinicians were more likely to reduce the number and dose of opioid drugs they prescribed after learning that one of their patients had died from an overdose from a controlled substance than those not notified, according to a recent study appearing in the August 10 issue of Science. (imperialvalleynews.com)
  • Prescription opioid deaths are reported to the National Center for Health Statistics. (imperialvalleynews.com)
  • Mayo Clinic offers consultations, testing and care for a wide range of conditions related to sudden death, including genetic testing, long QT syndrome, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and more. (mayo.edu)
  • Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden, unexplained death of an infant younger than one year old. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The overall infection rate was 30.47 per 10,000 patient-weeks (39.64 among unvaccinated patients and 27.24 among patients who had completed a primary COVID-19 vaccination series). (cdc.gov)
  • The overall death rate was 1.74 per 10,000 patient-weeks. (cdc.gov)
  • COVID-19 severity was assessed at admis- at increased risk for COVID-19-associated death. (cdc.gov)
  • Connecticut is the only other New England state to register a death due to COVID-19. (wbur.org)
  • Now, a worrying new study reveals Covid-19 patients admitted to very full intensive care units are up to 19 per cent more likely to die than if the ICUs were less busy. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • In the study, published on medRxiv , researchers from University College London (UCL) analysed data from 4,032 Covid-19 patients who were admitted to NHS Intensive Care Units (ICU) between April 2 and June 1. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Heritage Specialty Care, in Cedar Rapids, has seen 17 deaths from COVID-19 of its residents, out of a total of 102 cases of the illness among residents and staff combined, according to Linn County Public Health. (kcrg.com)
  • Dr. Tony Myers, vice president of medical affairs at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, said at the Monday briefing that his facility is seeing around two to three new admissions per day for patients with COVID-19. (kcrg.com)
  • Just over 30 percent of the patients with COVID-19 at Mercy have required at least some mechanical ventilation, which is around double the hospital's normal use of ventilators. (kcrg.com)
  • It makes no sense to bring more COVID-19 patients into facilities that have already failed to protect them," said Sen. Karin Housley, the Republican chairwoman of the Senate Family Care and Aging Committee. (startribune.com)
  • The state Department of Health has reviewed the cases of about half the patients hospitalized for COVID-19 statewide. (startribune.com)
  • However, during the COVID surge, there was a 110 per cent increase in the O/E for all adult cardiac procedures and a 167 per cent increase for isolated CABG, meaning more patients were dying than expected. (businessworld.in)
  • At the time of presentation, there were 95.4 million global cases of COVID-19 with more than 2 million global deaths. (businessworld.in)
  • A green fungus that has been detected in a rising number of Covid sufferers could triple the risk of death in some high-risk patients, experts have said. (mirror.co.uk)
  • Scientists at the Woon Chong of Albany Medical Center (WCAMC) in New York State have now discovered that the condition has occurred in 13.5 percent of patients hospitalised with Covid. (mirror.co.uk)
  • They looked at 19 studies from across the world and found 1,421 patients with Covid-19 associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA). (mirror.co.uk)
  • Scientists studying the condition at the Institute of Medical Education and Research in India have also found that the risk of dying from CAPA was 2.8 times higher than other patients who were severely ill with Covid. (mirror.co.uk)
  • Patients receiving maintenance dialysis benefit from staying up to date with recommended COVID-19 vaccination. (cdc.gov)
  • However, rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related deaths in this population are not well described. (cdc.gov)
  • Implementing recommended infection control measures in dialysis facilities and ensuring patients and staff members are up to date with recommended COVID-19 vaccination is critical to limiting COVID-19-associated morbidity and mortality. (cdc.gov)
  • A COVID-19-related death was defined as a death occurring in a patient who had not fully recovered from a SARS-CoV-2 infection. (cdc.gov)
  • COVID-19-related deaths were ascribed to the week during which the death occurred. (cdc.gov)
  • BANGKOK - Thai Public Health Ministry reports one more Covid-19 death and 91 new patients, raising the total cases in the country to 1,136. (pattayamail.com)
  • The total death toll from Covid-19 rose to five on Friday and 11 critically-ill cases have been placed on ventilators. (pattayamail.com)
  • They consist of five visitors to boxing stadiums, seven to entertainment venues, 18 people in close contact with Covid-19 patients. (pattayamail.com)
  • CareOne Nursing Homes Said They Could Safely Take More COVID-19 Patients. (propublica.org)
  • The CareOne at Morris nursing home in Parsippany, New Jersey, had among the highest death rates from COVID-19 in the state, nearly one for every three beds. (propublica.org)
  • Now it has the highest rate of COVID-related deaths among large long-term care companies in New Jersey. (propublica.org)
  • In the weeks that followed, CareOne would go on to have the highest rate of COVID-19-related deaths among large long-term care companies in New Jersey. (propublica.org)
  • Over the past ten days, an average of 18.9 additional symptomatic COVID-19 patients per day have been hospitalized. (err.ee)
  • Despite this, there were some concerns about the benefits of these drugs in COVID-19 patients because animal studies had shown that statins, ACE inhibitors and ARBs increase the expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme II (ACE2), the receptor that SARS-CoV-2 uses to infect host cells. (uclahealth.org)
  • The results of the study, Wang says, support the potential benefits of statin use in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and show the safety of proceeding with future studies involving statins for the treatment of COVID-19. (uclahealth.org)
  • What this study does not show is that the decrease in the death rate of patients with COVID-19 is directly caused by the use of statins. (uclahealth.org)
  • Also, it is unclear whether the findings apply to non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19. (uclahealth.org)
  • Study on early markers of death in patients with COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • COVID-patients, but also suspected cases. (who.int)
  • The total number of deaths in China has risen to 425, China's National Health Commission has said, with 20,438 confirmed cases overall. (sky.com)
  • The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) is a registered charity based in London. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, researchers indicate that the program may have a corresponding negative outcome for patients discharged with heart failure and pneumonia. (aboutlawsuits.com)
  • Patients were divided into non- survival and survival groups based on the disease outcome. (bvsalud.org)
  • In a study published online recently in the journal Resuscitation , investigators found that nearly 40% of patients recalled some degree of consciousness that occurred while they were seemingly unconscious and dying. (medicinenet.com)
  • When a resuscitation effort is stopped, other patients waiting a long time must be evaluated. (medscape.com)
  • The clinical course, once the patient is resuscitated, largely is predicted by the ED presentation of hemodynamic stability, early neurologic recovery, and the duration of the resuscitation. (medscape.com)
  • For patient education information, see the Heart Center and Public Health Center, as well as Chest Pain, Heart Rhythm Disorders, Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Attack, and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). (medscape.com)
  • In July 2017 it published a study which found that many patients who needed non-invasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure had problems in the quality of their care. (wikipedia.org)
  • "The shocking and shrouded circumstances of Ms. Mao's passing - particularly the fact that her body was not discovered until five days after her death - has rocked the Southeast Asian community and the larger community in the Bronx, many of whom rely on Montefiore to provide care," Mekong campaign director Khamarin Nhann wrote in a letter Friday to Montefiore's CEO, Dr. Philip O. Ozuah, which was shared with POLITICO. (politico.com)
  • The death of a mentally ill teenager after he drank excessive amounts of water may have been prevented if his care and treatment had been delivered differently, an investigation has found. (yahoo.com)
  • A Scottish Government spokesperson said: "The death of any person in care is not acceptable. (yahoo.com)
  • These deaths - and I hope we will experience no more - highlight how extremely important it is for all of us, young and old, to take extra care to protect those most vulnerable to serious illness," Levine said. (wbur.org)
  • This should be the new standard of care for these patients," Pennell added. (upi.com)
  • In addition to receiving standard care, patients were randomly assigned to receive either an 80 milligram (mg) pill of Tagrisso once daily or an inactive placebo for up to three years. (upi.com)
  • The totality of the data from his team's research "instills confidence that adjuvant osimertinib is the standard of care for patients with resected EGFR[-mutated] stage IB-IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer," Herbst said. (upi.com)
  • The registry data helps the agency "act quickly with manufacturers and health care professionals to make more timely, evidence-based decisions to mitigate device problems and keep patients safe," the statement said. (californiahealthline.org)
  • No other state in the nation that reports such data has such a high percentage of deaths in long-term care, according to an analysis by a Texas-based nonprofit. (startribune.com)
  • Nationwide, outbreaks in long-term care facilities have claimed 33,000 lives - more than a third of all deaths nationwide, according to the Associated Press. (startribune.com)
  • A GP practice in North London has made the decision to stop employing physician associates after an incident of 'poor quality' care contributed to the death of a patient. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • Ms Keeley said: 'The coroner concluded that the poor quality of care given to Emily Chesterton by the physician associate at Vale Practice contributed to her death. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • Health minister Will Quince said: 'Improved patient safety and care lay at the heart of the NHS long-term workforce plan, which, backed by significant Government investment, shows our determination to support and grow the healthcare work- force. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • I hope this prosecution reminds health and social care organisations they must provide care in a safe environment that meets the needs of patients, so they receive the safe care and treatment they deserve. (itv.com)
  • We remain absolutely committed to improving further to ensure that we provide the safest care and treatment to all patients in our care. (itv.com)
  • These numbers should not serve as a deterrent to patients seeking care for chest pain or other cardiac symptoms," said Robbin G. Cohen, MD, MMM, from Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who was not directly involved with this study. (businessworld.in)
  • Help us transform patient care, enable key discoveries and perform lifesaving surgeries. (scripps.org)
  • The system said it has fired the doctor, reported findings of an internal investigation to authorities and removed 20 employees from patient care pending further investigation, including nurses who administered the medication as well as pharmacists. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • It's now conducting an internal investigation of his work, but it said a preliminary review found that his prescribing practices were "consistent with appropriate care provided to patients in the intensive-care unit. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • Body camera footage has been released in the case of two Illinois EMTs charged with first-degree murder following the death of a 35-year-old patient in their care. (ems1.com)
  • ED personnel are entrusted not only with the care of the patient but also with family members. (medscape.com)
  • [ 14 ] Specific education and training can help health care workers deal with feelings about suffering, disappointment, failure, and death in a satisfactory way, resulting in improved physician wellness and physician performance. (medscape.com)
  • The amount of time an EP can spend with a bereaved family may be limited because unexpected deaths typically bring ordinary patient care activities to a standstill. (medscape.com)
  • Patient safety practice refers to processes or structures which, when applied, reduce the probability of adverse events resulting from exposure to the health-care system across a range of diseases and procedures.1 It aims at making health care safer for both clients and staff. (who.int)
  • Therefore, all health-care professionals and institutions have obligations to provide safe and quality health care and to avoid unintentional harm to patients. (who.int)
  • Resolution WHA55.18 of the Fifty-fifth World Health Assembly urged Member States to consider the problem and to establish or strengthen science-based systems necessary for improving patients' safety and quality of health care.7 In addition, the Fifty-seventh World Health Assembly supported the creation of the World Alliance for Patient Safety. (who.int)
  • Inappropriate funding and unavailability of critical support systems, including strategies, guidelines, tools and patient safety standards, remain major concerns in the Region.8 There is need for investment to enhance patient safety in health-care services. (who.int)
  • These experiences of death were different from hallucinations, delusions, dreams or CPR-induced consciousness, the researchers said. (medicinenet.com)
  • Device-related death reports are typically open, allowing researchers to track and alert their peers about safety concerns. (californiahealthline.org)
  • The researchers compared the number of deaths from colorectal cancer in the group that had adenomas removed with the number of deaths in the internal control group without adenomas. (cancer.gov)
  • Because participants that received statins were older and had a greater incidence of medical conditions such as hypertension, lung lesions and diabetes, the researchers analyzed patients that were matched for baseline characteristics such as age, disease severity and pre-existing conditions. (uclahealth.org)
  • The former respiratory therapist who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a patient in Missouri 20 years ago has been arrested in northeastern Kansas, authorities said. (fox2now.com)
  • These recalled experiences and brain wave changes may be the first signs of the so-called near-death experience, and we have captured them for the first time in a large study," Parnia said. (medicinenet.com)
  • The study authors further explained that at death, many of the brain's natural braking systems are released in what is called disinhibition. (medicinenet.com)
  • All [the study] has shown is that in some patients there is continued electrical activity in the head that occurs during the same period that other patients report having NDEs [near-death experiences]," Greyson said. (medicinenet.com)
  • Parnia acknowledged the study was not able to match electrical activity with a near death experience in the same patient. (medicinenet.com)
  • For this study, 372 patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (a measure of heart function) and depression were randomly assigned to receive escitalopram or matching placebo in addition to optimal heart failure therapy. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Dr Harrison Wilde, first author of the study, said: 'What is unique about this study is that we've been able to put a number on the increased risk to patients for the first time in the context of surge capacity. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • HealthDay quoted the lead researcher on the study from Columbia University Medical Center, who said high depression alone or high stress alone didn't increase the risk of a heart attack or death. (scrippsnews.com)
  • By 2006, deaths attributed to AIDS had fallen 94% compared with pre-1996 levels, said the study authors, led by Kholoud Porter of the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit in London. (advocate.com)
  • The study did warn that there was an increased risk of death for HIV-infected people of all ages based on the amount of time they have been living with the virus. (advocate.com)
  • An interim analysis of a phase 3 study found that 7.3% of patients treated with molnupiravir were hospitalized within 29 days. (cnbc.com)
  • Molnupiravir's efficacy was not affected by the timing of symptom onset or patients' underlying risk factors, the study showed. (cnbc.com)
  • A recent study of lung cancer patients found that 88% of those on Tagrisso were still alive five years after their initial surgery for their lung cancer, compared to 78% of those on placebo. (upi.com)
  • All patients in the study had cancers with EGFR mutations. (upi.com)
  • The study had a global reach: Patients came from 26 different countries across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. (upi.com)
  • Nicholas Harper, a PhD candidate in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School, has received a prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Cancer Institute to study cell death as it relates to cancer therapies. (umassmed.edu)
  • Long-term results from a study of colonoscopy for patients at higher-than-average risk of colorectal cancer confirm that removing precancerous adenomas can not only reduce the risk of colorectal cancer but also reduce the number of deaths from the disease by more than half, according to this study. (cancer.gov)
  • However, whether the reduction in incidence found in the study would translate into fewer deaths could be determined only with longer follow-up. (cancer.gov)
  • If the study hadn't shown a reduction in mortality, explained Dr. Zauber, that would have indicated that colonoscopy mostly picks up adenomas that would not progress to the aggressive cancers that lead to death from the disease. (cancer.gov)
  • The other 776 patients, with benign polyps, served as an internal control group for the follow-up portion of the study, to track survival in people who did not have any adenomas at the time of initial colonoscopy. (cancer.gov)
  • Because this type of comparison could never be performed, Dr. Zauber and her colleagues also used a computer model in their study called MISCAN-Colon to estimate the number of deaths that would have occurred in a population of the same age and with the same number of detected adenomas as the National Polyp Study group, but who did not have those adenomas removed. (cancer.gov)
  • In what they claim is the largest study of its kind to date, an international team of scientists has identified a gene mutation in patients with prostate cancer that increases their risk of death more than threefold, and increase the likelihood of relapse nearly sevenfold. (genengnews.com)
  • Study data indicates there were 3.2 million hospitalizations for heart failure, 1.8 million for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and 3 million for pneumonia and, overall, there were 270,517 deaths from heart failure, 128,088 deaths from acute myocardial infarction, and 246,154 deaths from pneumonia within 30 days of discharge. (aboutlawsuits.com)
  • Sudden death risk in overt coronary heart disease: the Framingham Study. (medscape.com)
  • The present study therefore aimed to investigate what drugs were prescribed during the last six months of life to individuals with a history of illicit substance use who died with opioids present in their blood, the relationship between drugs prescribed and drugs found in blood at time of death, and if prescription of specific drugs was temporally associated with death. (lu.se)
  • About 20 years after her death, Livingston County's prosecutor says Fern Franco died of lethal doses of a muscle relaxant and the pain reliever morphine. (abc15.com)
  • Jennifer Hall was initially charged with two counts of first-degree murder but pleaded guilty in April to reduced first-degree involuntary manslaughter counts in the deaths of 75-year-old Fern Franco and 37-year-old David Wesley Harper. (fox2now.com)
  • Some people call SIDS "crib death" because many babies who die of SIDS are found in their cribs. (medlineplus.gov)
  • SIDS is the leading cause of death in children between one month and one year old. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Most SIDS deaths occur when babies are between one month and four months old. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Long-term efficacy and safety of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which are widely used to treat depression, is unknown for patients with heart failure and depression. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Primary and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancers (mCRPC) have previously been shown to fall into genomic subtypes, and trials are now ongoing to test targeted treatments, such as PARP inhibitors and AKT inhibitors, in patients with particular gene mutations, the authors wrote. (genengnews.com)
  • Between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016, the county reported 222 deaths for which Schedule II, III or IV drugs were the primary or contributing cause. (imperialvalleynews.com)
  • The Government must now move quickly to regulate physician associates and learn from the events that led to the sad and tragic death of Emily Chesterton. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • 8. Greig DR, Schaefer U, Octavia S, Hunter E, Chattaway MA, factors for illness and death caused by infection with Dallman TJ, et al. (cdc.gov)
  • Biogen Idec Inc. said Wednesday that a patient who had taken its multiple sclerosis pill Tecfidera for more than four years died after getting a rare brain infection, sending shares of the Cambridge biotechnology company down sharply. (bostonglobe.com)
  • While the cause of death was pneumonia and there is no evidence conclusively linking it to the best-selling MS treatment, Biogen Idec spokeswoman Kate Niazi-Sai said in an interview that the company "can't rule out Tecfidera as playing a role" in the brain infection known as progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or PML. (bostonglobe.com)
  • It was reintroduced in 2006 with a stringent monitoring program, and the company has since developed a test to determine which patients might be vulnerable to the brain infection. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Patients receiving maintenance dialysis are at increased risk for complications related to SARS-CoV-2 infection, including death. (cdc.gov)
  • A SARS-CoV-2 infection was defined as any positive SARS-CoV-2 test result for a dialysis patient during the preceding 7 days. (cdc.gov)
  • Following the adoption of Resolution WHA55.18, a number of countries took steps to prevent healthcare-associated infection to improve patient safety in the Region. (who.int)
  • Previous meta-analysis indicates that depression prevalence in patients with heart failure is 10 percent to 40 percent, depending on disease severity. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Of the approximately 35 000 cancer patients in Yemen, Layan and Mohammed are just 2 of the more than 1000 children suffering from cancer, making up 12% of about 11 000 newly registered cancer cases in the country. (who.int)
  • As of last month, 495 cases of PML worldwide in patients taking an injected Biogen Idec drug, Tysabri, have been reported. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Though the data did not directly address the cause of increased mortality, many surgeons say they currently are limited to operating on only the most urgent coronary bypass cases and patients who tend to be sicker. (businessworld.in)
  • The US accounted for more than 24 million cases and approximately 400,000 deaths. (businessworld.in)
  • Opioids and tranquilizers in combination were found in a vast majority of deaths, and prescription data suggested that the use of these drugs was illicit in a majority of cases. (lu.se)
  • The role of physician associates in general practice was discussed yesterday in Parliament, as Labour MP for Worsley and Eccles South Barbara Keeley raised the issue following the death of Emily Chesterton - the daughter of her constituents Marion and Brendan, who died in November 2022 after suffering a pulmonary embolism. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • In its serious incident report, the Vale Practice states that patients should not see a physician associate twice for the same condition, and guidelines make it clear that physician associates cannot currently prescribe, with any prescriptions needing to be signed off by a supervising GP. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • These medications are enough to cover acute shortages of medicines for 30 000 cancer patients for one year. (who.int)
  • Key death data about heart devices sits in inaccessible Food and Drug Administration reports that can take up to two years for the public to see under open-records laws. (californiahealthline.org)
  • The Food and Drug Administration continues to file thousands of reports of patients' deaths related to medical devices through a reporting system that keeps the safety data out of the public eye. (californiahealthline.org)
  • The result of this remaining so-called registry exemption program is that key death data about heart devices sits in inaccessible FDA reports that can take up to two years for the public to see under open-records laws. (californiahealthline.org)
  • Doctors tend to report extensive data on patients for certain medical devices that are closely monitored in registries. (californiahealthline.org)
  • The registry leaders, in turn, have reported data to device makers, who sent the FDA spreadsheets detailing what they know about more than 8,000 patient deaths. (californiahealthline.org)
  • Device makers say the registries strip key data they need to fully investigate each death, most of them related to heart valves threaded through a catheter and implanted in faulty hearts. (californiahealthline.org)
  • They integrated data from whole exome sequencing, gene expression, and histopathological analyses, in combination with patient survival, and duration of treatment with the androgen receptor (AR) signaling inhibitor (ARSI) drugs enzalutamide and abiraterone acetate. (genengnews.com)
  • Patients were followed for a mean of 18 months, and data were censored at the time of death or loss to follow-up. (nih.gov)
  • In the WHO African Region, understanding of the problems associated with patient safety is hampered by inadequate data. (who.int)
  • COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - A South Carolina healthcare employee has died after being struck in the groin, with his death ruled as a homicide. (nbc12.com)
  • But Dinwiddie County Commonwealth's Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill also described it in court Wednesday, saying at the first hearing for the deputies that Otieno was smothered to death, local news outlets reported. (walb.com)
  • The news release did not say what role they are alleged to have had in Otieno's death. (walb.com)
  • The median follow-up for all patients was almost 16 years. (cancer.gov)
  • Within the peak and trough categories, patients' minimum, median, and maximum values were determined. (lu.se)
  • Lower peak values were associated with thromboembolism for patients' minimum (p = 0.01), median (p = 0.005) and maximum (p = 0.001) values. (lu.se)
  • Higher trough values were associated with death for median (p = 0.03) and maximum (p = 0.002) values and with both bleeding (p = 0.01) and major bleeding (p = 0.02) for maximum values, but there were no associations with thromboembolism. (lu.se)
  • The median age of 162 patients (57.4% males ) was 67.5 years old. (bvsalud.org)
  • Several weeks after a patient was found dead in the stairwell to Montefiore's Family Health Center, a Bronx community group is pressing the health system and the woman's group home to address why her body languished there for five days. (politico.com)
  • "Given Ms. Mao's resident status , her elderly age, and the serious nature of her mental and physical health, we are baffled by her death and the fact that her body was not discovered until five days after her initial death," Nhann wrote in the letter to Catholic Charities Community Services. (politico.com)
  • They include that the Government should set standards within the next six months for the safe transfer to, or management of patients who present from other health boards. (yahoo.com)
  • Our report details the actions and decisions taken by teams at the two health boards involved in the lead-up to his death. (yahoo.com)
  • Jason Doctor, Ph.D., of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and colleagues found that physicians who received a letter from the chief deputy medical examiner informing them of the overdose death of one of their patients reduced the number of opioids prescribed by 9.7 percent in the three months following the intervention. (imperialvalleynews.com)
  • They also compared the number of deaths in the adenoma group with the number of deaths expected to have occurred in the general population, calculated from NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database, the National Center for Health Statistics database, and the National Death Index . (cancer.gov)
  • Officials say a health employee's death in South Carolina has been ruled a homicide. (nbc12.com)
  • Columbus-based Mount Carmel Health System acknowledged the doses were larger than needed to provide comfort for dying patients. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • For excellent patient education resources, visit eMedicineHealth's Mental Health Center . (medscape.com)
  • Mehra R. Global public health problem of sudden cardiac death. (medscape.com)
  • Using the 2013 National Electronic Health Records Survey, this NCHS report summarizes physician acceptance of new patients with Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance. (cdc.gov)
  • Every patient has the right to be treated using the safest technology available in health facilities. (who.int)
  • These findings do not support the use of escitalopram in patients with chronic systolic heart failure and depression," the authors write. (sciencedaily.com)
  • However, the findings provide reassurance that removing precancerous adenomas decreases the risk of death from colorectal cancer in people at higher-than average risk, noted lead author Ann Zauber, Ph.D., of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. (cancer.gov)
  • Findings from the integrative analysis approach indicated that patients with mutations in the retinoblastoma (RB1) were 3.3 times more likely to die as men without RB1 alterations, and were also 7.7 times more likely to relapse on standard therapy. (genengnews.com)
  • The AR findings indicate that targeting androgen receptor signaling using current ARSI approaches may not be complete, and that "further targeting of the protein may be clinically beneficial in patients who develop resistance to these agents. (genengnews.com)
  • The report, which made 10 recommendations, also said: "A more assertive approach to the treatment of Mr D's psychotic illness in the two years before his death was warranted. (yahoo.com)
  • Information on jogging habits was available in 18 patients who ran 7 to 105 miles per week (mean 33) for one to 28 years (mean 20). (nih.gov)
  • Two-thirds of patients in the group receiving Tagrisso completed the full three years of treatment, compared to 41% of those taking placebo. (upi.com)
  • It has been used by more than 100,000 patients since the company began testing it in clinical trials more than 10 years ago. (bostonglobe.com)
  • In the first 10 years after initial colonoscopy, the risk of death from colorectal cancer was approximately the same between the patients who had precancerous adenomas removed and those without adenomas. (cancer.gov)
  • Several years ago, Deb had a near death experience after giving birth and then having an amniotic fluid embolism - an extremely rare event that is often fatal. (scripps.org)
  • Figures show that when ICU capacity was lower than 45 per cent, the risk of death decreased by 25 per cent. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Put another way, that translated into a 51% reduction in risk of death for those on Tagrisso versus those who were not. (upi.com)
  • This translates to an estimated 53 percent reduction in the risk of death from colorectal cancer following the removal of precancerous adenomas during colonoscopy. (cancer.gov)
  • Lower peak values were associated with an increased risk of thromboembolism, and higher trough values were associated with an increased risk of death and bleeding. (lu.se)
  • It appears to be a complication of chronic hemolysis, is resistant to hydroxyurea therapy, and confers a high risk of death. (nih.gov)
  • Investigators have examined whether 24 months of treatment with the antidepressant escitalopram would improve mortality, illness, and mood in patients with chronic heart failure and depression. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This is the case for many Yemenis who cannot afford the cost of treatment, and who stay at home and wait for death to relieve their pain. (who.int)
  • Most cancer patients seek treatment at the National Oncology Centre in Sana'a that receives more than 600 patients per month. (who.int)
  • It is devastating to watch helpless patients leave the centre with little hope of coming back to continue treatment, simply because they cannot afford it," said Dr Abdullah Thabaan, head of the communication unit. (who.int)
  • Even those patients who manage to travel to the centre for treatment are now at risk, as we are hugely underfunded and receive no operational costs. (who.int)
  • Regular mammograms ensure early diagnosis of breast cancer and help achieve high rates of treatment and reduce the number of deaths from this type of cancer. (who.int)
  • Dec. 1, 2021 A medication originally used for patients with diabetes is the first to help people with heart failure and could revolutionize treatment. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The trial results "will broaden treatment access for patients with EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer," he added. (upi.com)
  • Side effects did occur more often in the Tagrisso group versus those taking placebo: "Adverse events" (most commonly diarrhea, skin conditions and cough) prompted 13% of patients to stop treatment in the Tagrisso group, versus 3% of those taking placebo. (upi.com)
  • The research results, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ), also suggest that some prostate cancer patients may respond to treatment using an existing breast cancer drug combined with immunotherapy. (genengnews.com)
  • Adverse events have been estimated to occur in 4% to 16% of all hospitalized patients. (who.int)
  • Patient safety efforts should focus on surgical procedures and older patients. (nivel.nl)
  • The letter identified the patient by name, address and age, and outlined the annual number and types of prescription drug deaths seen by the medical examiner. (imperialvalleynews.com)
  • Medical records show that before 1996, when combinations of antiviral drugs became available, the death rates for HIV-infected patients were 41 times higher than the death rate of people of comparable age not exposed to the virus in 10 European nations and Australia. (advocate.com)
  • Less than a week after her death from cancer on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023, the New York woman has raised enough money to erase more than $13 million in medical debt for others with a posthumous plea for help. (wgntv.com)
  • Scripps Medical Center Jefferson is a one-stop shop for patients, with a wide range of outpatient services in Oceanside. (scripps.org)
  • The attorney who brought the first lawsuit said, in that case, either layers of safeguards repeatedly failed to flag a "grossly excessive" dosage of fentanyl, or the medical professionals intended to accelerate the death of the patient, 79-year-old Janet Kavanaugh. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • Both patients and medical professionals can request appointments and referrals. (mayo.edu)
  • Medical professionals can request patient referrals to Mayo Clinic using the online physician referring system . (mayo.edu)
  • The ED is where medical staff are most likely to encounter the death of a child. (medscape.com)
  • Patients aged 18years and above who had been on ARV drugs for at least one year were included, while those who had a medical emergency and needed immediate attention were excluded. (who.int)
  • This survival benefit was seen across all stages of cancer included in the trial, and it was consistent whether or not patients had already received standard chemotherapy before joining the trial. (upi.com)
  • Patients in the non- survival group had significantly higher white blood cell count , decreased lymphocyte count , anemia and thrombocytopenia compared to patients in the survival group (p (bvsalud.org)
  • This leads to poor oxygen supply or cerebral hypoxia and thus leads to the death of brain tissue or cerebral infarction/ischemic stroke. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to the Sumter County coroner's office, Robinson's death was related to physiological stress associated with a physical altercation. (nbc12.com)
  • The coroner's report said that Wright's cause of death was compression and positional asphyxia. (ems1.com)
  • Doppler-defined pulmonary hypertension occurred in 32 percent of patients. (nih.gov)
  • A bill that would have allowed terminally ill, mentally competent patients to self-administer a prescription to end their lives failed to gain traction in the last legislative session. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • LEFRAK: Inside is a prescription strong enough to lead to death. (kunr.org)
  • We used conditional logistic regression to find temporal associations between the prescription and dispensing of drugs and time of death. (lu.se)
  • Prescription and dispensing of alprazolam and diazepam were temporally associated with death. (lu.se)
  • Prescription of certain drugs, especially alprazolam and diazepam, should be made with great caution to patients with a history of illicit substance use or concurrent use of opioids. (lu.se)
  • There was no significant improvement on a measure of depression for patients in the escitalopram group. (sciencedaily.com)